Faculty of Science & Technology (FST): Recent submissions
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Mineralization In The Migori Greenstone Belt, Macalder, Western Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1987)Macalder copper sulphide deposit is located to the western end of the Migori greenstone belt in Kenya at the northern margin of an intensely dislocated metamorphosed Archaean volcanogenic sedimentary sequence known as the ... -
New Perspectives In Vertebrate Paleoecology From A Recent Bone Assemblage
(University of Nairobi, 1979)Abstract.-Interpretations of vertebrate paleoecology depend on knowledge of taphonomical processes which alter the composition of the preserved fossil assemblage from that of the original community. Study of the potential ... -
Observing Changes in Riparian Buffer Strip Soil Properties Related to Land Use Activities in the River Njoro Watershed, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2011)Riparian buffer strip guidelines are under scrutiny in the River Njoro Watershed in Kenya. This study investigated soil properties (bulk density, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) in different land use types (small scale ... -
Seasonal Variability Of Persistent Organochlorine Pesticide Residues In Marine Fish Along The Indian Ocean Coast Of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2008)Organochlorine pesticide residues were analyzed in samples of fish taken from four different locations along the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya. Considering all the four sampling sites in the two sampling seasons, the ranges ... -
Land-snail faunas of afromontane forests of Mount Kenya, Kenya: ecology, diversity and distribution patterns
(University of Nairobi, 2001-06)Aims To (1) describe the distribution patterns of land-snails occurring in afromontane forest habitats on Mount Kenya, in relation to elevation and aspect; (2) explore the relations between the land-snail faunas and ... -
Investigating The Influence Of Synoptic-scale Monsoonal Winds And Mesoscale Circulations On Diurnal Weather Patterns Over Kenya Using A Mesoscale Numerical Model
(University of Nairobi, 1996)The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) developed at Colorado State University (CSU) was used to investigate the influence of the large-scale monsoonal winds and the mesoscale local circulations on the diurnal ... -
Development and optimization of the Suna trap as a tool for mosquito monitoring and control
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background: Monitoring of malaria vector populations provides information about disease transmission risk, as well as measures of the effectiveness of vector control. The Suna trap is introduced and evaluated with regard ... -
The influence of external stakeholders and expansion strategies on the relationship between organisational resources and firm performance
(University of Nairobi, 2013)For decades, the field of strategic management has focused on the determination of drivers of performance and the causes of variation in performance within and between firms. The frameworks so far identified such as ... -
The Performance Persistence of Equity and Blended Mutual Funds in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)This paper evaluates the performance persistence of equity and blended mutual funds in Kenya for the period 2006 to 2009. The objective of the study was to establish persistence of funds’ performance. The target population ... -
Demarkation In A Gerenuk Territory: An Economic Approach
(University of Nairobi, 1981)Patterns of antorbital gland marking by a free-living territorial male gerenuk were investigated in two-week periods in two consecutive years. Marks were removed after the first year and an experimental replicate thus ... -
A Review and Assessment of Applicability of the Heat Stress Indices in Kenyan Weather Forecast
(University of Nairobi, 2014-05)The weather and climate of any given place is an environmental resource, it greatly determines the socio-economic and political life of humans and other living things. The packaging of weather information especially the ... -
Environmental Concerns: Biodiversity and Sustainable Environmental Protection
(University of Nairobi, 2006)Biodiversity is the science tha describes the great variety of living things, namely animals, plants and bacteria present on this planet and their successful adaptation to diverse habitats. In other words, it is the science ... -
The biomass of game animals in Nairobi National Park, 1960–66
(University of Nairobi, 1968)The large animals of Nairobi National Park have been censused intermittently once a month from mid-1960 until the end of 1966. Of the 23 species discussed, the density per kilometre has been determined accurately for the ... -
Vegetation changes over palaeo-time scales in Africa
(University of Nairobi, 2001)The record of palaeovegetation dynamics in Africa generally extends back to 30000 yr BP, and longer records, where they do exist, tend to be characterised by hiatuses, giving a broken slide-show of vegetation dynamics in ... -
Future Water Supply in the Machakos District of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1987)Most African governments are aiming to provide a supply of clean and safe water for rural people by the year 2000. Faced with a rapid population growth rate of four percent per annum (the highest in the world) and limited ... -
A Review of Some Indices used for Drought Studies
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Droughts are serious extreme events that have adverse effects on the physical environment and water resource systems in both developed and developing countries. Consequently, there is need for adequate measures for responding ... -
Phylogeny Of Suckermouth Catfishes (mochokidae: Chiloglanis) From Kenya: The Utility Of Growth Hormone Introns In Species Level Phylogenies.
(University of Nairobi, 2014-07)African suckermouth catfishes (Mochokidae: Chiloglanis) occur in freshwater throughout tropical Africa. Specimens from all major drainages across Kenya were collected over three field seasons. Here we present a phylogeny ... -
Endogenous Hepadnaviruses, Bornaviruses And Circoviruses In Snakes.
(2014-07)We report the discovery of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) from Hepadnaviridae, Bornaviridae and Circoviridae in the speckled rattlesnake, Crotalus mitchellii, the first viperid snake for which a draft whole genome sequence ... -
On the Relationship between Satellite-based Evapotranspiration and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Case Study: Narok County of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2014)This study sought to unearth a possible relationship between evapotranspiration and Normalized Difference vegetation index (NDVI). Daily datasets of Evapotranspiration with a pixel resolution of 3km were sourced from ...